Making the Global Economy Work for Everyone

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of globalisation, exposed the fragility of the current growth model, and accelerated the ongoing tech revolution. This book is an in-depth analysis of these weaknesses and fragilities in the context of sustainability. Economist Marco Magnani suggests the possibility of pursuing a more balanced, environmentally and socially sustainable growth while defusing today's apocalyptic alarmism about climate change, energy and demographic constraints, and the future of work. To make the global economy work for everyone.

Investigates the fragility of the current growth model, the weakness of globalization, and the role of digital economy Explores the impact of tech revolution on growth and employment, the man-machine relationship, and the future of work Suggests pursuing a balanced, environmentally and socially sustainable growth defusing today's apocalyptic alarmism

Autorentext
Marco Magnani teaches International Economics and Monetary & Financial Economics at LUISS University in Rome and lectures on Dynamics of Innovation at Alta Scuola Politecnica of Polytechnics of Turin and Milan. He has been visiting fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Innovation: engine of economic growth (and employment).- Chapter 2: The technological revolution: The rise of machines.- Chapter 3: The technological revolution: professions at risk and new jobs.- Chapter 4: Constraints to economic growth: Sustainability, happiness and other issues.- Chapter 5: New jobs or technological unemployment?.- Chapter 6: Many proposals, few resources: The difficult choices for the future of labour.- Chapter 7: Human beings at the centre as "shareholders" of development.- Chapter 8: Ye were not made to live with the virus: Lessons from the pandemic.